Dr. Janet Lewis
Dr. Lewis is a psychiatrist in private practice in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester, a founding member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, and co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Climate Committee. She has given numerous academic presentations on climate mental health at annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association as well as to other professional, community, and religious groups. She is an author of climate papers in professional journals, including Psychodynamic Psychiatry and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. She has been featured in podcast interviews and interviewed and quoted by media outlets, ranging from NBC to Rolling Stone Magazine. She conducts a seminar series for University of Rochester psychiatric residents, covering the breadth of psychiatry’s interface with climate change.